Essay about Positive Outcomes of the French Revolution

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A common theme of the historical French Revolution of the 1790s is the bloodshed associated with a new execution device, the guillotine. This negative connotation of the Revolution resides in the minds of the French and foreigners alike. However, although the French Revolution has contained a fair amount of bloodshed, its aftermath on the French has been overall positive. To begin, there were several contributing factors to the Revolution. Even though theorists have divergent opinions on the factors that started the rebellion, there are three widely accepted causes: financial status of the country, rapid overpopulation, and the relative unfairness of the French political system (“French Revolution,” Columbia). The French government was…show more content…

This traditional system consisted of three “estates”. All three factions voted on legal issues, ranging from laws to wages for different occupations. The three groups consisted of the nobility, the clergy, and the commoners. Because the nobility controlled the clergy, nearly all the voting in the old regime was done in favor of the nobility and clergy, who composed only five percent of the French population (“Social Causes”). The beginnings of the revolution started with the changing of the political workings of France. In 1789 at the city of Versailles, members of the three Estates had an argument on whether or not they should vote by head, thereby giving the common class the advantage, or by estate, as was customary. Because the representatives of the common estate was larger than the other two and often started arguments in favor of head count voting, the royal officials, who were in favor of the upper two estates, decided to lock the lower class representatives outside of their meeting hall on June 20. In retaliation, the third estate arranged for a rendezvous in the royal tennis court and pledged not to disband their group until their demands were met. Their main goal was to overthrow the old political system with a new constitution. This pledge, later known as the Tennis Court Oath, only temporarily paid off, though; the French King convinced the other two classes to join the side of the third group, but he also secretly called the military forces to

The French Revolution
“Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror,” says Alexis de Tocqueville, a historical political theorist. The French Revolution was a painful era that molded the lives of every citizen living in France and changed their ways of life forever. Beginning in 1789 and lasting ten years until 1799, the people of France lived in a monarch society under King Louis XVI’s rule. He was a very harsh ruler and had…

Appendix C
Outcomes of the Revolution
Part 1
Complete the grid by describing each military event and explaining its relationship to the outcome of the Revolutionary War.
|Military Event |Description |Relationship to the Outcome of the Revolutionary War |
| |These two battles were the first battles in the Revolutionary War. They were two |The outcome of these two…

French Revolution The French Revolution last from 1789 to 1799. This war had many causes that began the revolution. Its causes ranged from the American Revolution, the economic crisis in France, social injustices to the immediate causes like the fall of Bastille, the Convening of he Estate-General, and the Great Fear. As a result of this revolution there many effects , immediate and long term. The immediate effects were the declaration of rights of man, abolishing of olds reign, execution of king…

Influenced Events in the French Revolution
De'Anna Andrew
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Julie Thomas
Influenced Events in the French Revolution
What is a revolution? According to Merriam-Webster (2014), revolution is a fundamental change in political organization; especially: the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed. Various social, political, and economic conditions led to the revolution. These conditions included dissatisfaction among…

The constitution of 1791 also resulted in dramatic changes to the political structure. It, however, did not bring relief to those who most deserved it, the peasants. These events were the prologue to the French Revolution, the most important event in France’s history. The French Revolution was a direct result of overspending by King Louis XIV and Louis XVI, leaving France a financially unstable nation and ultimately resulting in a revolt by the Third Estate upset by the dwindling social and economic…

During the summer of 1793, the radical phase of the French Revolution was intensified by the Terror, created by The Committee of Public Safety. The Terror successfully preserved the Revolution by weeding out counter-revolutionaries to eliminate corruption within the government and giving equality to all social classes which untied France under one government. However, these successes were undermined by the many failures of the Terror due to the oppression of citizens which would lead to many executions…

American and French Revolutions declared that their goal was to create a new political system based on the principles of liberty and equality. However, the interpretation of those ideas by the American Founding Fathers turned out to be distinctly different from that of the French revolutionaries.
How did those different interpretations of the concepts of liberty and equality affect the outcomes and the legacies of both revolutions? Analyze, compare, and contrast.
The American Revolution officially…

the greatest transformations, reformations, revolutions and many other critical events that ever took place in human history. The credit is given to all these revolutions for enlightenment of mankind. The two most important revolutions were the French revolution and the industrial revolution. One can feel that both of these revolutions mutually reinforced each other and later became the back bone of all other revolutions. On the other hand, both revolutions had totally different impacts and consequences…

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
The French Revolution, which erupted in 1789 marked a turning point inthe history of human struggle for freedom and equality. It put an end tothe age of feudalism and ushered in a new order of society. An outline of this revolution will explain to you the kind of turmoil that occurred inEurope. This revolution brought about far reaching changes in not onlyFrench society but in societies throughout Europe. Even countries in othercontinents such as, India, were influenced…

been seen from colonization to industrial revolution. The impact of globalization towards economy, technology and business can been explored in many ways. Particularly, globalization has an enormous impact on global textiles and apparel industry. Since definition of globalization varies to different people in different field, this paper attempt to define the word ‘’globalization’’.
Many studies have been conducted in regards to positive and negative outcome of globalization(Lu , 2012; Shen , 2008)…